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Topic: Photo of the week 92 (August 5)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-04-2006 03:53 PM
   
 The first time that the first sixteen US astronauts trained together was at a jungle survival exercise in Panama. This rare photograph, the first taken of the entire group informally, was shot at Panama City in June 1963. From left: McDivitt, Cooper, Schirra, Shepard, See, Grissom, Borman, Carpenter, Stafford, White, Glenn, Lovell, Conrad, Slayton, Armstrong and Young. The sixteen astronauts were rarely photographed all together. Ed Hengeveld |
zee_aladdin
Member Posts: 781
From: California
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 08-04-2006 04:29 PM
Armstrong seems to have a BIG smile in the picture. I guess he knew that he was going to be the first to land on the moon!- Zee  |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 08-04-2006 09:49 PM
Really neat photograph, with a wonderful group dynamic. I like that Carpenter alone appears dressed for the tropics, in whites. Appears to have let his hair grown. He and Gus, alone among the group, are conversing with each other, both with arms crossed. Lovely picture. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-04-2006 09:53 PM
It looks like they could both be elbowing Frank Borman so he doesn't hog the middle of the photo... |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 08-05-2006 08:45 AM
Thanks for posting it, Ed.
Not many shots of the first 2 classes all together.
There sure is a lot of history there! |
Michael Davis
Member Posts: 528
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 08-05-2006 10:34 AM
Ed,
Wow. What a photo. I've never seen it before. Now if only I could get a copy signed by the enire group... |
Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 08-05-2006 11:18 AM
Black pants, Panama, June! Yikes! At Least Carpenter had the sense to wear light colored clothes!------------------
Kind Regards Douglas Henry Enjoy yourself and have fun.... it is only a hobby!
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John Charles
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 08-05-2006 11:45 AM
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Originally posted by Aztecdoug:
Black pants, Panama, June! Yikes! At Least Carpenter had the sense to wear light colored clothes!
IIRC, Cunningham referred to the dress code of the day as "Ban Lon shirts and Sans-a-Belt slacks." Early synthetics, very uncomfortable in hot, humid weather, as I recall. (But I was young then, and usually wore cut-off blue jeans and Keds.) ------------------
John Charles
Houston, Texas |
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